Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickAlive by Piers Paul Read
Vicarious Thrills
387 books — 425 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Awakening by Kate ChopinA Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Best Feminist Fiction
1,501 books — 2,668 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniHamlet by William Shakespeare
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
15,130 books — 17,331 voters
Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroWatchmen by Alan             MooreBlindness by José Saramago
Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
3,711 books — 25,908 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenHamlet by William ShakespeareSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensPersuasion by Jane Austen
Must Read Classics
1,853 books — 4,624 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Best Historical Fiction
7,282 books — 25,484 voters

The Collector by John Fowles
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,291 books — 15,526 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Best Books Ever
75,484 books — 280,407 voters

Candide by VoltaireSongs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
Best Books of the 18th Century
375 books — 1,006 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Best Books of the 21st Century
9,847 books — 21,837 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensThe Awakening by Kate Chopin
Best Books of the 19th Century
1,705 books — 6,863 voters
Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,788 books — 49,757 voters